Is there a “right” way to have NSTextFieldCell draw vertically centered text?

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The other answers didn’t work for multiple lines. Therefore I initially continued using the undocumented cFlags.vCentered property, but that caused my app to be rejected from the app store. I ended up using a modified version of Matt Bell’s solution that works for multiple lines, word wrapping, and a truncated last line:

-(void)drawInteriorWithFrame:(NSRect)cellFrame inView:(NSView *)controlView {
    NSAttributedString *attrString = self.attributedStringValue;

    /* if your values can be attributed strings, make them white when selected */
    if (self.isHighlighted && self.backgroundStyle==NSBackgroundStyleDark) {
        NSMutableAttributedString *whiteString = attrString.mutableCopy;
        [whiteString addAttribute: NSForegroundColorAttributeName
                            value: [NSColor whiteColor]
                            range: NSMakeRange(0, whiteString.length) ];
        attrString = whiteString;
    }

    [attrString drawWithRect: [self titleRectForBounds:cellFrame] 
                     options: NSStringDrawingTruncatesLastVisibleLine | NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin];
}

- (NSRect)titleRectForBounds:(NSRect)theRect {
    /* get the standard text content rectangle */
    NSRect titleFrame = [super titleRectForBounds:theRect];

    /* find out how big the rendered text will be */
    NSAttributedString *attrString = self.attributedStringValue;
    NSRect textRect = [attrString boundingRectWithSize: titleFrame.size
                                               options: NSStringDrawingTruncatesLastVisibleLine | NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin ];

    /* If the height of the rendered text is less then the available height,
     * we modify the titleRect to center the text vertically */
    if (textRect.size.height < titleFrame.size.height) {
        titleFrame.origin.y = theRect.origin.y + (theRect.size.height - textRect.size.height) / 2.0;
        titleFrame.size.height = textRect.size.height;
    }
    return titleFrame;
}

(This code assumes ARC; add an autorelease after attrString.mutableCopy if you use manual memory management)

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